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Italy has overtaken France as the largest wine producer in the world. The Italians are expecting a 50.37 million hectolitre harvest in 2015-2016. This is a growth of 6 million hectolitres on last year. Whilst Italy's production has grown, France's volumes have fallen by 1% putting them in 2nd place with Spain 3rd. English wine is growing with an expected growth of 4.4% with 47,000 hl putting us at 17 out of 23 countries. Still some way to go!
We interview Nyetimber's winemaker, Dermot Sugrue. Dermot is an effervescent character from Ireland producing England's top sparkling wines.
Owen Elias from Chapel Down talks to us about winemaking in the UK and how the industry has changed over the last decade from amateur hobbyist to professional business.
English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber hopes to go from ‘boutique to brand’ now that Stephen Clark has joined the company
English Wine Week, the countrywide campaign to promote English wines and vineyards, kicks off on Saturday 24th May.
Denbies’ Bacchus 2004 was served at a dinner held for President Bush by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street recently.
A still white wine has taken the top prize in this year’s English & Welsh Wine of the Year Competition.
English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber has appointed a new sales manager Francis Brackley.
Vineyard plantings in the UK continue to increase according to the latest DEFRA figures which show there are 1,106 hectares now under vine.
English Wine Week kicks off this week from Saturday 29th May to Sunday 6th June with a countrywide campaign to promote English wines.
Biggest production on record for 2010 UK vintage.
UK vineyard reports red wine with alcohol levels of 15%.
Sparkling wine incorrectly labelled as Prosecco in UK bars
Retailers announce Christmas period wine, beer and spirit sales.
Italy becomes Europe's largest producer while England grows at 4.4%
New guidelines bring UK men's weekly alcohol limits in line with women
Hush Heath Estate are reporting a rise in demand due to Brexit.
Food and Wine writer slams London wine business
The UK Wine Awards is a new wine competition focused on the English and Welsh wines.
Taittinger is the first of the big branded champagne houses to plant grapes in the UK.
English Wine Week is only 2 weeks away with around 90 events taking place all over the UK.
Vranken Pommery Monopole launches English Fizz grown and made for them by Hampshire wine producer Hattingley Valley.
Of the 2.6 million bottles of GB wine sold in 2018 8% were exported. but the main export countries might surprise you.
England left lockdown on Wednesday, but tighter restrictions for half the country is no festive cheer.
As England comes out of enforced restrictions next week, the change of rules will mean that pubs and bars will be able to freely operate without any restrictions.
June is a busy month for wine lovers in the UK, with Welsh Wine Week, London Wine Fair and English Wine Week.
English wine week runs this week from 18th to 26th June 2022. After a spike in sales of English and Welsh wines following the jubilee week, producers are looking forward to this years English wine week.
Chapel Down will be the UK largest winery this year with 2 million bottles from the 2022 harvest.
There has been a spate of English vineyards being sold or up for sale.
Maison Louis Latour is one of the most highly-respected negociants in Burgundy. We speak to Louis Latour about the activities of a negociant and their role in producing and selling Burgundy's wine.
This week we preview The Wine Show with wine expert Isabelle Legeron and head of PR for the French Wines Experience, Chris Skyrme. The Wine Show is on from 26-29 October 2006 at the Islington Business Design Centre in London.
Sopexa work with the French generic bodies to promote French wines as a whole. Chris Skyrme brings us up to speed with how they are promoting their wines to the UK consumer.
Tim Atkin MW is wine critic and writer for The Observer. A passionate Francophile, Tim shares his views on the French wine industry and presents the highlights and opportunities.
Matthew Dickinson is commercial director at Thierrys Wine Services. Thierrys is the biggest UK importer of wine from France so we get a feel for their business and the French wine trade.
Berry Bros & Rudd is finding cases of Bordeaux 2005 that it sold ‘en primeur’ have increased in value more than any other vintage between harvest and being shipped to the UK
France has come top of the medal table at this year’s International Wine Challenge
An amazing 96% of English wines were awarded medals in this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition
UK drinkers are predicted to become the biggest European spenders on wine within the next three years.
St-Emilion classification St-Emilion’s chateaux have been left in labelling disarray
French wine is back in fashion with consumers at Asda
A week after the St-Emilion classification was declared invalid, it’s back!
The 2008 French wine harvest is 5% less than 2007 due to poor weather
Confusion over the legality of wine advertising in France
The Japanese are the first in the world to uncork Beaujolais Nouveau each year but this year sales are under pressure.
American wine sales have overtaken French wine sales in the UK for the first time ever.
The French Court of Appeal has ruled that the 2006 Saint Emilion classification will be scrapped.
Wine producers who were on trial for illegally adding sugar to their wines have been found guilty.
British consumers will soon be able to purchase a low alcohol wine 2 years after it was banned by the French government.
France has overtaken Italy as the world's biggest producer but in Champagne yields are to be cut to stabilise prices.
It's the bubbles that give Champagne its flavour confirming the long-held view that Champagnes with a fine and persistent mousse, or stream of bubbles, are of a higher quality.
A French Sauvignon Blanc, called Kiwi Cuvee, has been prevented from being sold in Australia because of its name.
Producers in Burgundy are under attack from critics who claim that many wines are undrinkable when they should be at their peak due to premature oxidation.
St Emilion finally decides on a process to end the on-going controversy over the 2006 reclassification.
Overall Italian wine production exceeds France including Prosecco production which out produced Champagne.
The permitted yield of grapes for the upcoming harvest in Champagne is to be increased to 12,500 kilogrammes per hectare (kg/ha) to cope with growing demand for Champagne.
The 2011 harvest has started early in Bordeaux and Champagne.
A new term 'Claret de Bordeaux' is to be used for wines under AOC Bordeaux, AOC Bordeaux Superieur and AOC Cotes de Bordeaux appellations.
Chateau Lafite Rothschild is to seal all its bottles with the Prooftag bubble seal as an anti-fraud measure.
Exchange rates have fallen but duty will save you some money so is it still worth stocking up from over the channel?
Cows in the southern Herault region of France are fed red wine to produce VinBovin a new delicacy in Paris restaurants.
Smaller harvests in Northern Hemisphere could put pressure on prices
New proposal by EU to allow use of symbolic chateau label on bottles exported to Europe.
Independent wineries feeling pinch from bad harvests and economic climate look for more government protection.
With tax on French wine where will we go for cheap plonk ?
China has agreed to protect the name Champagne so that only wines produced in the French region can bear the name.
Evidence shows winemaking in South of France as early as 5th Century BC
EU trade row with China provokes them to ask for anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into EU wine.
French seek to forbid alchohol promotion on internet and social media
At Vicard Tonnelleries, a leading barrel maker based in Cognac, sales have fallen from 50,000 barrels in 2008 to 40,000 in 2012 due to trend for unoaked wine.
Bordeaux faces its smallest harvest in over 20 years, according to the Bordeaux Wine Bureau.
2013 harvesting begins across the globe what effect on pricing ?
The world’s largest and most important living grapevine collection at the Domaine de Vassal vineyard, in the South of France, is to be relocated.
Global sales of Prosecco have overtaken Champagne.
America overtakes France in the purchase of wine.
France opposing the creation of new web domains.
France is world's biggest producer but there's still too much wine to go around.
Champagne volume and value sales are up driven by exports.
Italy becomes Europe's largest producer while England grows at 4.4%
Languedoc winemakers were going to disrupt the tour but have reached an agreement to showcase French wine.
French winegrowers furious at quantity of Spanish wine being imported.
Bordeaux prices rise by around 20% as the Antique Wine Company go bust claiming little interest in previous vintages.
French reported weakest harvest in 30 years
FTA agreement reduces tariffs on imported Australian wines
2017 wine production is down overall by 8% around the world. France, Italy and Spain, which produce half the world's wine, have been hit by severe frosts and fires.
For years the French have dominated China, but in 2017 Australia has now become Chins, main wine supplier.
Around 5 million of bottles of Spanish rosé wine imported into France, have been sold as French wine.
Hail netting ban has been lifted to the relief of many growers after it was found not to influence the climate below the netting.
China’s wine sales in restaurants and bars were released in Wine Business Solutions latest report.
The French government has released rules for the new designation for natural or low interventionist wines.
French wine sales to the US fell by 14% in 2020, due to import tariffs placed on them by the Trump presidency over US claims of subsidies to EU plane maker Airbus.
Brexit Britain has been under new duty-free rules since January, but with lockdowns and bans on travel, many Brits don’t know what the new allowances mean and how to benefit the most.
Wide spread frost has hit many vineyards over several nights, devastating many of France's top wine regions and parts of Europe.
This week a new 1,000 square meter duty free shop was announced for Calais, while work on the Dunkirk shop is due to be completed ready for opening in July.
The coldest night in April since 1947 years has caused wide spread frost throughout France
French wine terrorist group CRAV continue assault on free trade this time blowing up a government building in Carcassonne.
French wine & spirit exports drop, driven by the US which saw 22% volume decline according a new report by FEVS (French Association of Wine and Spirits Exporters).
Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles achieve Premier Cru status after 18 year process by the INAO.
Ian D'Agata is an expert on regional Italian food and wine and managing director of the International Wine Academy of Rome. Ian gives an overview of the regions and key grape varieties to help get our heads around Italian wine.
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano has become the second Tuscan wine to come under investigation
UK drinkers are predicted to become the biggest European spenders on wine within the next three years.
San Gimignano has become the latest Tuscan appellation to hit the headlines
The Italian government is to guarantee that all exported Brunello is 100% Sangiovese.
American wine sales have overtaken French wine sales in the UK for the first time ever.
The Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadine DOC zone will become a DOCG from the 2009 vintage.
Italian police close investigation into the alleged adulteration of Brunello di Montalcino by declassifying 1.3 million litres of Brunello to the IGT category.
A new low alcohol wine called Vetro will be one of the first to clearly display the units of alcohol on its front label in response to the government's Know Your Limits campaign.
A new EU law that came into force in August last year has caught out Marks and Spencer with their Rosecco brand.
Giacomo Tachis named Man Of The Year 2011
Overall Italian wine production exceeds France including Prosecco production which out produced Champagne.
Producers in Montalcino, Italy have overwhelmingly rejected proposals to use grapes other than Sangiovese in Rosso di Montalcino.
Smaller harvests in Northern Hemisphere could put pressure on prices
Italian's approve use of synthetic corks and screwcaps for first time.
2013 harvesting begins across the globe what effect on pricing ?
Global sales of Prosecco have overtaken Champagne.
Short supply of Pinot Grigio forces price increases for this popular white wine
France is world's biggest producer but there's still too much wine to go around.
After a lengthy investigation police seize drugs and arrest winery workers in Montalcino, southern Tuscany.
Report on UK online wine sales shows top 5 country sources
The wine trade are downplaying speculation that there may be a shortage of Prosecco due to a difficult 2014 vintage.
After Prosecco shortages last year Italians predict a promising harvest this year.
Italy becomes Europe's largest producer while England grows at 4.4%
Italy's Prosecco applys for UNESCO world heritage status
2017 wine production is down overall by 8% around the world. France, Italy and Spain, which produce half the world's wine, have been hit by severe frosts and fires.
The Italian government is targeting 50 organisations for diluting top wines from around Italy.
China’s wine sales in restaurants and bars were released in Wine Business Solutions latest report.
World wine production has bounced back after a frost hit 2017 vintage with Italy the world's largest producer.
As the 2017 Bordeaux En Primeur campaign is about to be delivered it appears that most investors appear to have lost money. But Italy appears to be a country that is becoming more popular with LIV-ex investors.
Fraudsters in Milan have been arrested after an investigation showing that cheap Sicilian wine was being bottled as the famous Super Tuscan Sassicaia.
Each year France and Italy vie to be the world's largest wine producing country, with this year Italy coming in at top place with 19% of the world's wine production vs France at 18%.
Franciacorta, the premium traditional method Italian sparkling wine from Lombardy, has seen sales soar in Italy, the US, Switzerland and Germany.
Singapore’s Court of Appeals ruled in favour of the Italian Prosecco Consortium effectively banning Australian Prosecco.